Here’s what’s coming: in January, we’re transitioning the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera. With this camera app you’ll still be able to make six-second looping videos, and either post them directly to Twitter or save them to your phone. In the coming days we’re also rolling out a way to make it easy for your Vine followers to follow you on Twitter — stay tuned for a “Follow on Twitter” notification soon. And last but not least, you can now download your Vines through the app or the website. All of your Vines will continue to live on the vine.co website so you can browse all of the amazing videos you created over the years.

While the social nature of Vine will be gone, this will allow Twitter integration to flourish and keep creators from scrambling to recreate that Vine-feel on a different platform. If anything, it’s better than just saying goodbye and scrambling to get a bunch of content downloaded before the new year.